Man Pleads Guilty To Tampering

{Murray, Kentucky}…Jerry Walker Jr. has pleaded guilty to charges of tampering with evidence after being acquitted in July of arson, manslaughter, assault and wanton endangerment in the September 18, 1998, fire at Murray State University that killed student Michael Minger of Niceville, Florida and injured several others. The charges are related to six anonymous letters written right after the blaze that attempted to place blame for it. Defense attorney Dennis Null says his client admits he wrote the letters, but maintains he did not set the blaze. Under the agreement, Walker won't serve jail time and his record will be expunged in five years as long as he meets the terms of the pre-trial diversion, which includes helping to maintain a plaque in Minger's honor on Murray State's campus.